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I must down to the seas again, for the call of the running tide
Is a wild call and a clear call that may not be denied.
IT is hard to think. columnist Melanie Reid, who is tetraplegic, recently wrote of being pushed along the St Andrews sand in her adapted wheelchair, feeling a kind of freedom on the beach where was filmed and there being ‘something deliciously mind-scouring about the seaside’, with its wind and mewing gulls. Robert Browning wrote of the sea’s ‘tumultous strength’ and Byron ‘the music in its roar’; Jules Verne described ‘an immense desert, where man is never lonely, for he feels life stirring on all sides’.
